5-i 4 ANA 
ANAPHRCDI'SIA, f. [from, « neg. and 
Gr. venery; called al fo agenefia, atchniaf Impotence with 
refpeft to venereal commerce. This inability and Sterility 
arifes from various cattles, either from tin abolition of all 
paflionate defires, appetite, cr power of action, neceffary 
for the propagation of our fpecies, from a deleft in erec¬ 
tion, emiffion, or want of fertile femen. Sattvages has 
given us five fpecies, which Dr. Cullen thus divides. The 
true fpecies are the paralytic and gonorrhoic ; the fpurious[pe¬ 
eks, or where impediments occur to prevent the aft, from 
piles, or fome fault in the urethra; what is called falfe or 
fclitious, that is, fuppofed to arife from magic. See Sau- 
vages Nofologia Methodica, vol. i. 770. The cure of this 
difeale depends upon the removal of its feparate caufes; 
when it arifes from paralyfis, fuch medicines as are necef¬ 
fary for the conquering that complaint mud be had recourfe 
to, particularly eating ftimulants. Sattvages gives 11s an 
account of a man being cured by immerfmg the penis often 
in the day'in a ftrong decoction of muftard-feed. If it is 
occalioned by limple gonnorrhcea, fuch aids are to be call¬ 
ed in as are calculated to invigorate thefyftem, tonics and 
corroborants are to be made ufe of, particularly cold ba¬ 
thing, avoiding high-Ieafoned foods and cordial ffimtilants. 
If from the piles, or faults in the urethra, fuch means 
mu ft be ttfed as the nature and particular circumftances of 
the cafe demand. 
ANAPLA'SIS,/. [from umw^uccra^ Gr. to reftore to 
the original form. ] Hippocrates ttfes this word for the re¬ 
placing a fractured bone, and for a reftoration of fieftt. 
ANAPLERO'SIS,yi [from Gr. to fill up.] 
The reftitution of any wafted part. Iacarnatives are call¬ 
ed anapler otica . 
ANAPLEU'SIS,yi [from cwcnr'Kia, Gr. to fluctuate or 
float upon, or vvafn out.] Hippocrates ufed this word to 
exprefs when faulty humours rot the bone, fo that it falls 
out of its joint, as happens to the jaw fometimes. Vogel 
exprefles by this word, the fealing or reparation of the 
curious parts of a bone. 
ANAPODOPHYL'LUM,y. in botany. See Podo¬ 
phyllum. 
A'NARCH,y". [xrccex Gr. of a. priv. and go¬ 
vernment.] An author of confufion: 
Him thus the anarch old, 
With fatilt’ring fpeech, and vifage incompos’d, 
Anfwer’d. Milton. 
ANAR'CHI, y. [aK^xot, Gr. ] In antiquity, a name 
given by the Athenians to four fupernumerary days in their 
year, during which they had no magiftrates. The Attic 
year was divided into ten parts, according to the number 
of tribes, to whom the prefidency of the fenate fell by 
turns. Each divifion conlifted of thirty-five days; what 
remained after the expiration of thefe, to make the lunar 
year complete, which according to their computation con- 
lifted of 354 days, w ere employed in the creation of ma¬ 
giftrates, and called avxgx 01 and afxazgeciici. 
ANAR'CHICAL, adj. Confufed; without rule or go¬ 
vernment.—I n this anarchical and rebellious ftate of human 
nature, the faculties belonging to the material world pre¬ 
fume to determine the nature of fubjeftis belonging to the 
fupreme Spirit. Cheyne. 
A'NARCIIY,/. [c'waexuj!, Gr. ] Want of government; 
a ftate in which every man is unaccountable; a ftate with¬ 
out magistracy: 
Where eldeft Night 
And Chaos, anceftors of nature, hold 
Eternal anarchy , arnidft the noife 
Of endlefs wars, and by confufion Hand. Milton. 
Arbitrary power is but the firfl natural ftep from anarchy , 
or the favage life; the adjusting power and freedom being 
an effect and confequence of maturer thinking. Swift. 
Anarchy is alfo applied to certain troublelome and 
diforderly periods, even in governments otherwife regular. 
ANA 
In England, the period between the death of Cromwell 
and king Charles’s reftoration is commonly reprefented as 
an anarchy. Every month produced a new fcheme or form 
ol government. Enthufiafts talked of nothing but annul, 
ling all the laws, abolishing all writings, records, and re- 
gifters, and bringing all men to a primitive level. The 
Jewish hiftory preSents numerous inftances of anarchies in 
that ftate, ufually denoted by this phrafe, that “in thofe 
days there was no king in Ifra&l, but every man did that 
which was right in his own eyes;” which is a juft pifture 
of an anarchy. 
ANARE'TA,y. with aftrologers, a name given to the 
fatal planet in the nativity, which threatens death. 
ANAR'RHICAS,y in ichthyology, a genus of fiflies 
of the order of apodes. There is but one fpecies of this 
genus, viz. the annarrhicaslupus, orfea-wolf; which feems 
to be confined to tlie northern parts of the globe. We find 
it in the feas of Greenland; in thofe of Iceland and Nor¬ 
way; on the coafts of Scotland and of Yorkshire; and 
laftly, in that part of the German ocean which wafhes the 
Shores of Holland, the moft fouthern of its haunts that we 
can with any certainty mention. It is a moft ravenous and 
fierce fiSli, and, when taken, faftens on any thing within its 
reach : the fishermen, dreading its bite, endeavour as Soon 
as pollible to beat out its fore-teeth, and then kill it by 
Striking it behind the head. Schoneveide relates, that its 
bite is fo hard, that it will feize on an anchor, and leave 
the marks of its teeth in it; and the Danish and Ger¬ 
man names of Jlecnbider and JleinbeiJfer , exprefs the fenfe of 
its great Strength, as if it were capable of crushing even 
Stones with its jaws. It feeds aimed entirely on cruftaceous 
animals and finell-fifii, fuch as crabs, lobfters, prawns, 
mufcles, fcollops, large whelks, &c. thefe it grinds to pie¬ 
ces with its teeth, and fw'allows with the fmaller Shells. It 
does not appear-they are diSSolved in the Stomach, but are 
voided with the feces; for which purpofe the aperture of 
the anus is wider than in other fith of the fame Size. It 
is full of roe in February, March, and April, and fpawns 
in May and June; but it has fo difagreeable and horrid an 
appearance, that nobody at Scarborough except the fisher¬ 
men will eat it, and they prefer it to holibut. They al¬ 
ways before drefiing take off the head and Skin. 
The fea-wolf grows to a large Size: thofe on the York¬ 
shire coaft are Sometimes found of the length of four feet; 
according to Dr. Gronovius, they have been taken near 
Shetland feven feet long, and even more. The head is a 
little flatted on the top; the nofe blunt; the noftrils very 
Email; the eyes Small, and placed near the end of the nofe. 
The teeth are very remarkable, and finely adapted to its 
way of life. The fore-teeth are ftrong, conical, diverging 
a little from each other, Hand far out of the jaws, and are 
commonly fix above and the fame below', though fome¬ 
times there are only five in each jaw : thefe are fnpported 
within-lide by a row of fmaller teeth, which makes the num¬ 
ber in the upper jaw Seventeen or eighteen, in the lower 
eleven or twelve. The Sides of the under jaw are convex 
inwards, which greatly adds to their Strength, and at the 
fame time allows room for the large mufcles with which 
the head of this fifh is furnished. In the centre are two 
rows of flat ftrong teeth, fixed on an oblong bafis upon 
the bones of the palate and nofe. The teeth of the anarr- 
hicas are often found foflil; and in that ftate are called 
bufenites, or toacl-Jloncs: thefe were formerly much esteem¬ 
ed for their imaginary virtues, and were fet in gold, and 
worn as rings. 
The body of this fifh is long, and a little comprefled 
fidew’ays; the Skin Smooth and Slippery : it wants the late¬ 
ral line. The pefttoral fins confift of eighteen rays. The 
dorfal fin extends from the hind part of the head almoft to 
the tail; the rays in the frefh fifh are not visible. The 
anal fin extends as far as the dorfal fin. The tail is round 
at its end, and confifts of thirteen rays. The Tides, back, 
and fins, are of a livid lead colour; the two fil'd marked 
downwards with irregular obfeure duSky lines: theSe in 
different fish have different appearances. The young are 
